Mindful Self-Care for Clinicians and Caregivers

Caregivers are at a high risk of burnout.. Mindfulness-based interventions have been shown to significantly reduce burnout, stress, and anxiety. Mindful Self-Care for Clinicians and Caregivers: A Group Facilitator’s Guide provides a practical and scholarly resource for facilitators who provide mindful self-care groups for clinicians and caregivers. Developed by experts in the field of mental health, this book includes session by session guides (visual aids, audios, and videos) to support group facilitators. The book introduces readers to the theory and empirical foundations underlying mindfulness practices. The second section describes the development of the group intervention and presents a model for understanding the challenges of caregiving and emotional states related to this work. An online companion site containing audio and video files provides additional resources to help support facilitations in implementing this new model.

Martin Lumpkin, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with decades of experience in facilitating growth through psychotherapy and mindfulness training. His insights are described in the book Into the Music of the World: Living Life Mindfully. Dr. Lumpkin received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Texas Tech University in 1971. He has held staff and administrative positions at Terrell State Hospital, including creating and overseeing the Substance Abuse Program there. He enjoyed five years in a management consulting firm (Rohrer, Hibler & Replogle), where he developed the executive and team building skills of managers. Since the 1980's Dr. Lumpkin has been active in private practice focused on psychotherapy and mindfulness training. He taught at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern), introducing doctoral students in clinical psychology to psychotherapy and coordinating a doctoral internship consortium between UT Southwestern and Terrell State Hospital. Dr. Lumpkin studied and received extensive training in mindfulness training, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. Since the early 1990's, he has promoted the practice of mindfulness for personal well-being and as a therapeutic intervention. Dr. Lumpkin has been sharing his passion for mindfulness by providing workshops throughout the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex.